{"id":742832,"date":"2022-07-11T16:37:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T16:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9029437"},"modified":"2022-07-11T16:37:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T16:37:37","slug":"turning-a-san-francisco-recall-into-rout-for-police-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/11\/turning-a-san-francisco-recall-into-rout-for-police-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning a San Francisco Recall Into Rout for Police Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
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San Francisco voted on June 7 to recall its district attorney, Chesa Boudin, a reformer who had challenged the traditional \u201clock ’em up\u201d policies of big-city prosecutors. The margin was initially reported as a lopsided\u00a0 61%\u201339% landslide, in what major news media across the country reported as a blow to progressive Democrats.<\/p>\n
As New York Times<\/b> reporter Thomas Fuller, in an article published the day after the election (6\/8\/22<\/a>), put it, under a headline declaring \u201cVoters in San Francisco Topple the City\u2019s Progressive District Attorney, Chesa Boudin\u201d:<\/p>\n Voters in San Francisco on Tuesday put an end to one of the country\u2019s most pioneering experiments in criminal justice reform, ousting a district attorney who eliminated cash bail, vowed to hold police accountable and worked to reduce the number of people sent to prison.<\/p>\n Chesa Boudin, the progressive district attorney, was removed after two and a half years in office, according to the Associated Press<\/b>, in a vote that is set to reverberate through Democratic politics nationwide as the party fine-tunes its messaging on crime before midterm elections that threaten to strip Democratic control over Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n‘Decisively to the right’<\/b><\/h3>\n